One of those swims in a meet whereby you not only exceeded your swim time goal, but it felt better the longer you swam.
I remember one out of 40 years of swimming. Mine was in 1995 at Mt. Hood LC Nationals, the 800 m free. I had overtrained, tapered properly, and felt like a stick of dynamite going off the blocks. Not only did I negative split all the 200s, but I felt like I could have swam forever. I actually didn't want the race to come to an end.
I was spent at the finish, took a minute or two longer than others to get out of the water, but 15 minutes later felt great. I remember seeing the time on the scoreboard and I was in shock. I shaved over a minute off my personal best.
All of these things, to me, make that swim a "power swim." I even scratched all my backstroke events that day because I was so "high." I also remembered how stroke-by-stroke the entire 800 m. felt for several days.
Anyone else have this type of wonderful experience?
Donna
I guess I may not have made myself clear in the thread. I didn't mean a "comfortable swim" and analyzing it to death split by split, stroke by stroke. I meant one where you went all out all the way through it and exceeded expectations and were so thrilled with it you could hardly contain yourself. This is why after 40 years of swimming that my swim in Oregon "registered." I have had swims that I "won", but the swim itself didn't "register."
Hi Donna
My recent postal 3000 was by no means a "comfort" swim and the analysis came after. And, since my swimming background is limited (I swam my 1st race ever at 49) it is my most memorable swim. I was setting PB's at every distance from 1000 yards on. There may be a swim in my future that 20 years from now will qualify as "the swim of a lifetime" but for now this one was it.
I guess I may not have made myself clear in the thread. I didn't mean a "comfortable swim" and analyzing it to death split by split, stroke by stroke. I meant one where you went all out all the way through it and exceeded expectations and were so thrilled with it you could hardly contain yourself. This is why after 40 years of swimming that my swim in Oregon "registered." I have had swims that I "won", but the swim itself didn't "register."
Hi Donna
My recent postal 3000 was by no means a "comfort" swim and the analysis came after. And, since my swimming background is limited (I swam my 1st race ever at 49) it is my most memorable swim. I was setting PB's at every distance from 1000 yards on. There may be a swim in my future that 20 years from now will qualify as "the swim of a lifetime" but for now this one was it.
